THE PUBLIC ARCHIVE

Wikipedia

Open

Access normalized article JSON for 6M+ English Wikipedia entries. Consistent metadata, clean sections, and usage telemetry included with every request.

Coverage: 6M+ articlesFreshness: Updated monthlyAccess: Open dataset

Access Wikipedia's vast knowledge base through a simple, consistent API. No more wrestling with MediaWiki markup or building custom parsers.

  • Perfect for grounding LLM responses with reliable, citation-ready content.
  • Ideal for evaluation harnesses that need consistent, trustworthy data.
  • Clean JSON means less time parsing, more time building.
Try it yourself below

API Endpoints

API URL: https://alpha.projectdatax.com

Fetch article by URL

Pass any Wikipedia article URL and get back clean, structured JSON with the article content, metadata, and sections.

Response Fields

idsource_urltitlesummarybodysectionsreferencesmetadatausage
curl "https://alpha.projectdatax.com/https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMachine_learning"

Take it for a spin

Fetch mode:

Ready to explore

Enter a Wikipedia URL or article title above and click “Fetch article” to see the API in action.

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Ideas to get you started

Ground your chatbot

Give your LLM reliable facts to cite. Feed Wikipedia summaries into your RAG pipeline for responses users can trust.

Build evaluation sets

Create consistent test datasets from known-good content. Track quality with trustable baselines.

Enrich your knowledge graph

Pull structured Wikipedia data into your graph without writing scrapers. Normalize once, query forever.